$20.00 (trade paperback)
"...a powerfully original first novel"
— Faren Miller, Locus, April 2014
"Certain imaginative novels never best-sell, yet remain alive, a
singular treasure to each new generation that finds them — books such
as Islandia, The Worm Ouroboros, Gormenghast.
The Stone Boatmen has the makings of one of these quiet
classics. It is lucid yet complex. Its strangeness fascinates,
captivates. To read it is to find yourself in a country a long, long
way from home, taken on a unforeseeable journey — and when it's over,
you wish you were still there. "
— Ursula K. Le Guin
$12.00 $9.00 (paperback)
"This welcome discussion of the connections between future fiction
and stories about human inception emphasizes how mythic roots
contribute to the emotional power of narrative. Finch investigates the
inexplicable awe and wonder that emanates from close encounters
between myth and science fiction. This juxtaposition emphatically
indicates that science fiction is the predominant mythic metaphor of
our time.”
 —Marleen S. Barr
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“Corrupt, Degraded, Rotten to the core is British Civilisation, and
yet we find women who ought to know better, actually pretending that
they are perfectly contented with the existing order of things,”
declares the narrator of New Amazonia. Raging against an
antifeminist statement signed by “ladies” opposing the cause of
women’s suffrage, a writer falls asleep in 1889 and wakens, in company
with a hashish-smoking “masher,” in a future world run by
women. Originally published in 1889, New Amazonia tells the
story of how this future world came to be and reveals its shiny,
futuristic marvels as well as its government-administered horrors.
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Mary Shelley, a young banker's son, and William, an excessively tall
man with a "lividly hued visage, watery eyes, and blackened lips
within a straggling beard," pit their wits and derring-do against Lord
Byron, master of steampunk technology, and his thuggish minions.
$18.00 (trade paperback)
Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from
Across the Known Multiverse is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi
Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who
that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth-century narrators, “Dear
Reader,” really was? Or about the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based
his melodramatic “Fall of the House of Usher"? Missing Links and Secret
Histories elucidates these and other mysteries (some admittedly
occasionally obscure). It even includes excerpts from lost or suppressed
manuscripts scholars have not even suspected exist, such as “The V
Manuscript” written by the Marquis de Sade in 1783 while imprisoned in the
Chateau de Vincennes.
$16.00 (trade paperback)
Big Mama Stories collects five edgy, satirical tales of wily tricksters for
the 21st century. In “Big Green Mama Falls in Love,” Big Green Mama
duplicates herself and discovers just how life-threatening a Big-Mama-sized
case of love can be while the skwork learn that one cannot train a microbe
to be patriotic. In “Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota,” Big Red
Mama gets pissed off when she discovers the Cretaceous has been invaded by
an obnoxious human who has stolen a time-machine—and decides that some
information probably shouldn’t be free, particularly since as a group,
humans underestimated the damage they did and rarely took responsibility
for anything. On the basis of these stories, the one thing you can say for
sure is that Big Mamas' lives are never dull.
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$16.00 Pre-publication special
(until May 1)
Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays
brings us the texts of nine marvelous works of scholarly performance as
well as two works of drama in which the fantastic shows us the way
through despair. Taken
together, these essays and plays broadcast a message of hope and
intelligence that defiantly insists that our ability and desire to
tell stories defines our humanity and is one of our most valuable
resources.
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The poems in Numa tell the story of a shape-shifting numen. Numa,
whose home body is that of a wild feline, learns by trial and error to
take the form of other animals, plants, and the elements. As she grows
up, she uses her skill to experience and share the divine in ordinary
aspects of the world. She gives birth to a cub and begins raising her
to shape-shift. Then an interloper appears, a young man on a quest for
glory who believes he should defeat the “monster” in the forest.
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Why Are There No Women in Black?
Jyn, an Asian-American lesbian, makes her living stripping in clubs in
San Francisco. But stripping is only her day job. Her true vocation is
UFO hunting. One night, working at her day job, she sights a Man in
Black and realizes he is stalking her...
$18.00 (trade paperback)
Lee's powerful science fiction collection assembles 12 tales published
between 1979 and 2011, plus two originals. All of them showcase her strong,
entertaining, and often gorgeous writing... This is a solid grouping of stories that
deserves a broad audience.
—Publishers Weekly May 6, 2013.
$20.00 (trade paperback)
“This noteworthy anthology—published by a feminist small press in memory of
Butler, an African-American science-fiction author—consists of a
wide-ranging selection of sometimes-dense scholarly essays, highly readable
reminiscences and personal essays, poems, correspondence, photographs, and
interviews.”
—Publishers Weekly, May 27,2013
In the spirit of WisCon's continuing mission to boldly go where no con has
gone before in breaking down barriers, this volume of the WisCon Chronicles
seeks to smash ableist narratives that keep disabled people from full
participation in the present we inhabit and the speculative futures we hope
to create.
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